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Historical Event on 2/28/1919
Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1909 | Father Kamil Bulke was born. He produced a handy English to Hindi dictionary. He did his Ph.D. on 'Ramcharita Manas' and was Head of Hindi Department in Patna University. |
| 8/9/1942 | The Congress at its Bombay session passed the famous Quit India resolution, calling for mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale, under the leadership of Gandhiji. He stressed that ""We shall either free India or die in the attempt; We shall not live to see the perpetuation of our slavery""; popularly known as ""Do or Die"". But before the Congress could start the movement, the government arrested all the major leaders and the Congress was declared illegal. Spontaneous popular revolts broke out with the battle cry of 'British Quit India'. |
| 12/23/1972 | Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi. |
| 3/5/1919 | M.L. Kapoor, great industrialist, was born at Lahore. |
| 5/31/1994 | Pandit Samtaprasad, famous Tabla player, passed away. |
| 12/3/1991 | Satinder Kumar Lamba appointed India's Ambassador to Pakistan. |
| 7/3/1991 | Rupee devalued again from 10.58 to 10.96\% . |
| 4/23/1913 | Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born. |
| 2/28/1927 | Krishan Kant, vice President of India and former Young Turk, was born at Kot Mohd. Khan, district Amritsar, Punjab. |
| 8/28/1904 | First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held. |
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